I have had a problem with foxes for a long time. Den at the back of the garden and continuous fouling. Cubs flying around and it doesn’t help that the neighbour feeds them. So I took matter in my own hands. I purchased bottles of dark vinegar, they are cheap. I also purchased red pepper. I then went to the back of the garden and just laced the back with vinegar and pepper water mix ensuring the dens were basically no longer a nice place to sit and chat or hang out in. I also poured vinegar around the tree and exit/entry points and on their poo markings. I did this for two days. On day one they still came around. Day two - they have gone. My garden is peaceful. I am sure even the neighbours are thinking what’s happened but it saves me spending on pest control and I will do this every year. My garden is a bit woody so when It rains I reckon the smell just gets worse. If they return I will go and apply more until they get the message but so far it’s a been a week and I am pretty happy with the results. You might see one Fox stroll through possibly but the five or six cubs element has gone. It’s pretty near perfect. Amazing. Thanks Vinegar and red powder pepper!

http://www.environpestcontrol.co.uk/pes ... in-london/

We used this company to help with our fox problem.

Hi, the sonic one is a plug in one so you can just turn it off when your dog is in the garden. Most important is to have it on at night.

if its a sonic noise it will affect the dog.

I have the same issue. There are Foxes on either side of us and they are jumping into my garden and pooing and weeing everywhere, the smell is hurrendous. Surely the faeces could cause serious harm to our youngsters. Let alone being attacked.

Personally i think we should start a campaign to get rid of these animals from our back gardens. I know most people would want to get invovled. The noise every night is enough to want to get rid of them.

I am intending to write to the council, not just to tell them about the foxes but to warn them that serious harm could be done to my young family. The same article should be sent to the news paper. Could the council be sued if they harmed anyone? Perhaps?

There is something i saw at the local garden centre in Wandsworth that gives off a signal that foxes hate, so it could scare them off. I am going to try it. i'm not sure if the dogs won't like it either but worth trying.

The only other thing to try is pouring your own urine around your garden. They really don't like the smell.

Good luck.

Hi all i own a pest control company called pest-a-lance and it is worrying some of the pour advice some pest firms give. No advice should be given with out a site survey which we give for free on all pest problems, the treatment can and should be one both parties are happy with plus all pros and cons explained in detail. As for foxes this needs careful surveying to see if the problem is one that can be solved with out wasting your money as removing the foxes from your garden will only allow a new urban fox to move in due to the large population in a small area. Proofing, sonic sounds, smells, removal can all be done. For Free advice please call Jason on 07802346323 or pestalance@me.com http://www.pestalance.co.uk

We might be sharing the same family of foxes, they used to spend the early evening in my garden. We tried the wee trick and used ground pepper but that didn't work. Then we put moth balls next to the holes below the fence where they got in and where they used to poo and that did the trick they stayed away.

Good luck

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Orangetree wrote:Hi- I had the same problem in my garden. They would make an awful racket and during mating season it was unbearable.
Council was utterly useless, I called my friendly pest control guy who advised me put rags soaked in jeyes fluid by the shed and a few more around the garden hung from the fences. The smell of jeyes is strong and foxes do not like it so stay away (similar to earlier mail re peeing!) HOWEVER jeyes fluid is toxic to cats and if they come into contact with it through skin it will kill them so be careful where its put. Good luck, hope you get rid of the pesky buggers!

For God's sake then, please do not put Jeyes Fluid out, anybody! What awful and irresponsible advice you were given by the pest control guy. A cat could get anywhere that a fox could. I don't even have a garden, or a cat, but the idea sickens me.

Orangetree wrote:Hi- I had the same problem in my garden. They would make an awful racket and during mating season it was unbearable.
Council was utterly useless, I called my friendly pest control guy who advised me put rags soaked in jeyes fluid by the shed and a few more around the garden hung from the fences. The smell of jeyes is strong and foxes do not like it so stay away (similar to earlier mail re peeing!) HOWEVER jeyes fluid is toxic to cats and if they come into contact with it through skin it will kill them so be careful where its put. Good luck, hope you get rid of the pesky buggers!

For God's sake then, please do not put Jeyes Fluid out, anybody! What awful and irresponsible advice you were given by the pest control guy. A cat could get anywhere that a fox could. I don't even have a garden, or a cat, but the idea sickens me.

Orangetree wrote:Hi- I had the same problem in my garden. They would make an awful racket and during mating season it was unbearable.
Council was utterly useless, I called my friendly pest control guy who advised me put rags soaked in jeyes fluid by the shed and a few more around the garden hung from the fences. The smell of jeyes is strong and foxes do not like it so stay away (similar to earlier mail re peeing!) HOWEVER jeyes fluid is toxic to cats and if they come into contact with it through skin it will kill them so be careful where its put. Good luck, hope you get rid of the pesky buggers!

For God's sake then, please do not put Jeyes Fluid out, anybody! What awful and irresponsible advice you were given by the pest control guy. A cat could get anywhere that a fox could. I don't even have a garden, or a cat, but the idea sickens me.

Hi- I had the same problem in my garden. They would make an awful racket and during mating season it was unbearable.
Council was utterly useless, I called my friendly pest control guy who advised me put rags soaked in jeyes fluid by the shed and a few more around the garden hung from the fences. The smell of jeyes is strong and foxes do not like it so stay away (similar to earlier mail re peeing!) HOWEVER jeyes fluid is toxic to cats and if they come into contact with it through skin it will kill them so be careful where its put. Good luck, hope you get rid of the pesky buggers!

We had a real problem in the past. We were advised that my husband should pee in the garden regularly as that would make the mother feel vulnerable and move the babies. It seemed to work for a bit, but to be honest was not a long term solution! We bought one of those plug in sonic fox repellents which really helped. But the best thing was building a wall instead of a fence and putting really high trellis above all the walls with chicken wire attached behind. Now we see them walking along the wall behind the trellis to pass between our neighbours gardens but they don't come into ours. They also came into our house often but the final straw was my toddler crawling through fox poo.

Story from the Evening Gazette today.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/f ... 99892.html

Have you tried a Foxwatch? We have one and I think it works as the foxes only seem to reappear when the batteries die. It makes a noise inaudible to humans that foxes dont like. I had heard that it can sometimes be heard by children by neither of mine seem to be affected. You can buy them on amazon or the garden centre in Wandsworth for around £50. Prior to that we tried loin poo pellets which did nothing! Although I read somewhere that you can buy lion dung from London zoo and its a very popular fox deterant (a bit of a trek for those south of the river though!)

Good luck. I feel for you as I also hate having to constantly be on the watch when we're in the garden.